Thank you for the the link. I have found a .deb version, seems to install.
(after tl/tk pets installed).
Interface looks..er rudimentary and it can't find
root.xspeakfree.rc. (And it probably never will).
So will try at this, before descending into the madness of compiling.

Rpms have changed the encryptions or cpio logics many times. Really new .rpm are likely not to work with the Puppy busybox rpm2cpio. Inside rpms there are mostly .tar.*s . They are a box with a box inside.

Yes semme, I did, but it is not cross platform, no encryption, have to go through some third party, and the speak freely protocol will handle signals in remote areas where their signal drops down to virtually nothing.
Plus there is a nifty audio signal monitor that lets me tell them that they need a new microphone or their computer fan is on the way out!

Well it used to work sometimes. When I got the buzzing sound (like a usb sample rate mismatch, like wine couldn't change to 16 bit 8khz) I would reboot and mostly after a reboot I could use the prog in wine.

But not anymore. It constantly buzzes on transmission.
Thought maybe the Linux version would hook into alsa better.

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

contents added

options snd-usb-audio index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=1

where snd-hda-intel is the sound module for onboard or internal sound device.

this will force usb to always be index=o

Well that finally brought up the volume slider for usb audio, but both devices are saying that they are Device:0 in the multiple sound card wizard.
Back to the ghastly Intel HD for the moment.

EDIT: Looks like I got it wrong on some aspects of Psip

"The good thing about psip is you don't have to be logged into a server to use it. For example: if you have Psip running and I know your IP address I could add it as a buddy and call you direct."